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B-198576 1 (1981-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjld0001 and id is 1 raw text is: j I I 6 DECISION *1 I FILE: B-198576 MATTER OF: Charles Gilliland - Transportation of AHousehold Goods - Excess Weight DIGEST: 1. Employee may not be relieved of liabil- ity for cost of shipping weight allow- ance even if his request for a reweigh was not honored. Regulations which pro- vide for reweigh at employee's request are procedural or instructional and do not provide a basis for relieving an employee from excess weight charges when the weight was properly established at origin by weight certificates. 2. Employee claims that mistake was made in weighing his household goods because the number for one of four van containers listed on the weight certificate differed from one van container listed on the Gov- ernment Bill of Lading (GBL). In these circumstances employee has met burden of proof and shown that an error vas made in weighing part of his shipment. To cor- rect this error, the constructive weight of the misweighed portion of the shipment should be computed and substituted for the incorrect actual weight. Mr. Charles Gilliland, a civilian employee of the Department of the Air Force, requests reconsidera- tion of his claim for $964.68, for excess costs incurred in the shipment of his household goods in June 1973. Mr. Gilliland's claim was denied by our Claims Group in its settlement of March 15, 1978. The record reveals that Mr. Gilliland's household goods were shipped from Okinawa to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio under two Government Bills of Lading (GBL)' H-4,811,509 and GBL H-4,811,508, both dated May 30, 1973. Mr. Gilliland was authorized shipment of CeJrGli_ 64cess Cos-k fncirreA c)/C 7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 DATE: June 10, 1981

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